"Lost" to iPhones? Sure. Lost to Android? A lot harder call. Certainly Apple partisans of the time were still in full Android-dismissal mode. That was 2009; what if they'd stuck with it and kept improving it? No guarantees, but they at least would have had a seat at the table. Nokia spent some of the most formative years in this market not even sitting at the table while they waited for their Windows phone to come out.
Plus given the Linux base at the core of both Android and Maemo, had there been more resources put into it, it seems like there's a reasonable chance they could have been in a position to come to some sort of accommodation with Android, perhaps being able to run some apps, or at least making it easy to target both.
I agree. My N9 is a pleasure to use and it feels like MeeGo could've been an actual competitor had it not been mired in the internal battle with Symbian.
Plus given the Linux base at the core of both Android and Maemo, had there been more resources put into it, it seems like there's a reasonable chance they could have been in a position to come to some sort of accommodation with Android, perhaps being able to run some apps, or at least making it easy to target both.